Hi there, and sorry for quoting this way, but I'm just copy-pasting from the web:
Adeodato Simó said: > This has been discussed extensively in the past. As I understand it, > consesus was that it's ok for packages to "force" the presence of a > package providing m-t-a in Debian systems. Well, my understanding is that was the standard behaviour in the past, but it is not anymore. An example of a package with a simillar dependence is mysql-server. If you look to mysql-server 4.0 and 4.1 the dependency is still there, but if you take a look to mysql-server-5.0 the dependence is now gone. That was in the result of a bug report like this one (sorry, I lack the link) and discussion about the issue. Unless there's a reason you _need_ a MTA to use mutt in Debian (and you don't, I'm an user as example), the dependence shouldn't be there. > I'm tagging this bug wontfix instead of closing it You also tagged this as a 'wish', when this is not: it's a wrong dependency. Best Regards, Marcos Marado PS -> the mysql-server bug is http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=316297 -- Marcos Marado <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sonaecom ISP $ cat sig.pl ''=~('(?{'.('^)@@*@'^'.[).^`').'"'.('`@@[EMAIL PROTECTED]//[*;)@`//)@|'^'-).[`<@@(^^[`.@@[)^').',$/})') $
